A Brief History of WordPress

Download WordPress

CodeAnywhere.com DevBox

A DevBox is essentially a virtual computer that you can set up to run a web application – like WordPress. There are a variety of development environments from which you can choose including PHP CentOS – a stack that includes everything you need to run WordPress. View the slide deck below for step by step directions to set up WordPress in CodeAnywhere.

Setting Up WordPress

Learning About WordPress

WordPress is an open source software which means it costs you nothing and gives you the freedom to modify it to your own liking. The WordPress Codex is a vast repository of documentation and information about WordPress. As you become more familiar with WordPress, you will find it increasingly useful.

It’s a good idea to become a member of the WordPress Forumstoo. The community is very friendly and helpful.

In the mean time, conduct some research to learn about the following two WordPress items:

Child Themes

A child theme is a custom theme that is based on a parent theme – or a theme that already exists. This is the safest, and only official way to modify a theme. We’re going to follow the directions that come from the WordPress Codex at the following link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.

Create a child theme folder in wordpress > wp-content > themes (you can call this folder anything you like, but it should be lowercase and contain no spaces). Child themes are often named after the parent theme followed by “-child,” like this “twentfourteen-child”

Google Form Hacks

Google makes it easy to build forms that connect to spreadsheets. They’re great, but they rarely ever match your website. The following link: http://morning.am/tutorials/how-to-style-google-forms/ along with a few other HTML5 tricks below, will help you build beautiful forms that enter data directly into a spreadsheet.